New Officer Enforces Village Codes in Olympia Fields
Olympia Fields board creates code enforcement officer position after uncovering missing resolving. Village considers transfer of cable service to Jones Intercable Inc while Centel cancels service bond June 1. Board assigns Creswell to review Centel contract. Trustee Henn reports on a mock disaster with four police departments and commends coordinators. Board approves R W Robinson to solicit bids for sanitary sewer repairs.
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Olympia Fields Board of Trustees
James Creswell
Creswell
Centel Cable
Jones Intercable Inc
Centel
Robert Henn
Olympia Fields
Park Forest
Matteson
Richton Park
Henn
R.W. Robinson
Huth School bands and choruses plan three May concerts
Huth School will host three May concerts in the north gym at 7 30 p m. The seventh and eighth grade chorus performs with signing in Love in Any Language on May 23. May 24 features cadet jazz and beginning bands with Rock Around the Clock and Surfin USA. Trumpet soloists Bryan Gibb and Kevin Bretz open Trumpet Magic. Tequila highlights 115 beginning players, the district’s largest ever. May 31 presents the symphonic and stage bands with The Roaring Twenties and Can t Buy Me Love. Directors are Madeline Becker Ladricca Berry Lloyd Scott and others.
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Huth School
Cadet
Bryan Gibb
Kevin Bretz
Alan Hsu
Tim Lee
Jesse Hsu
Matt Deitch
Emily Fetherling
David Lovet
David Danick
Madeline Becker
Ladricca Berry
Lloyd Scott
Park Forest 40 Years Ago This Week District Sketches
Park Forest marks its 40th anniversary with notes from the era. Grover B Themer and Em ery E Strawley named as the first police officers of the village. Salaries for beginning teachers in School District 163 set at 2500 dollars. Dr Marvin Salant opened offices at 271 Forest Boulevard. The YMCA Indian Guides organized at B T Schwar 46 Fir Street. Edward L Waterman joined American Community Builders as chief accountant. Nortown Theater Chicago Heights showed The Boy with Green Hair. Residents put out a brush fire near Court B-4 after Chicago Heights Fire Department declined to respond.
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Marvin Salant
Forest Boulevard
Ymca Indian Guides
B. T. Schwar
Fir Street
Edward L. Waterman
Western Avenue
American Community Builders
Nortown
Chicago Heights
Patrick O’brien
Dean Stockwell
Frank Norris
William Duggan
Ray Myers
Park Forest
Magne B. Olson
Annual Park Forest Walkathon Supports Library Fund
Friends of the Park Forest Public Library sponsor the third annual walkathon next Sunday a 10 kilometer route through Park Forest streets and preserve trails starting at 9 a.m. from the library with 8:30 a.m. registration. Participants seek per kilometer pledges and forms are available at the library. Funds benefit library materials and equipment.
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Friends of the
Park Forest
Jaycees Plan 50s 60s Dance in Park Forest
Park Forest Jaycees sponsor a 1950s and 1960s dance on May 27 starting at 8 p.m. at the American Legion Hall 1631 Western Avenue. The event features a lip sync contest with prizes for the top three performers and is open to the public.
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Park Forest Jaycees
Park Forest American Legion Hall
Western Avenue
Mixed predictions rise in beer drivers strike
Representatives of liquor stores and larger bars warn selective strikes could hurt customers as Teamsters Local 744 protests against Southwest Beer Distributors in Crestwood Town and Country Distributors in Itasca and related Chicago firms. Union seeks contract demand after wage cuts. mediator called as talks stall.
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John Everson
Teamsters Local 744
Southwest Beer Distributors Inc
Crestwood
Town & Country Distributors
Itasca
Chicago
Pat O’brien
Grizwald’s
Cicero Ave
Southwest Beer Distributors
Chuck Zulanas
Zulanas Distributors
163Rd Street
van Dam Road
South Holland
Zulanas
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Huth
Grover B. Themer
Emery E. Strawley
the Star
Homewood-Frossmoor
I Coast
Norman A. Rosinski
Lester G Sons
James S Meidell
Chicago Sun-Times Company
Otto Boulevard
Illinois
Ster
U. S
US P.S Ze
Susan Murphy
Kimberly
Ruby Giddings
Giddings
Talala School
Bill Ridder
Walkathon
Ee Ee
Pontiac
Sacra
W. Sauk Trail
Aera
Cas
Carbone Clinic
Samuel P. WV
Shelle Optical
David J. Storm, DD
Rance
Ebon
W. Lincoln Hwy
London
London Fog
Kline
P.O. Box
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